THE SENATE

THE THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2019

 

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, CONSUMER PROTECTION, AND HEALTH

Senator Rosalyn H. Baker, Chair

Senator Stanley Chang, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Thursday, February 21, 2019

TIME:

9:00 a.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 229

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 106

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO DEFERRED DEPOSITS.

Reduces the maximum fee a check casher may charge under a payday loan agreement for deferring the deposit of a check from fifteen per cent to seven per cent of the face value of the check.

 

 

CPH

SB 806

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO MONEY TRANSMITTERS.

Amends money transmitter licensure requirements by adding a credit report and extending personal background history from five years to ten years, which will enable the division of financial institutions to join a compact of states that license money transmitters for purposes of efficiency and standardization.

 

CPH

SB 385

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL LICENSING.

Repeals defaults on student loans, student loan repayment contracts, and scholarship contracts as grounds for sanctioning professional and vocational licenses.

 

CPH

SB 774

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL LICENSING.

Prohibits a licensing authority from using rules to supersede requirements set forth in licensing laws and adopting rules that authorize an unlicensed individual to perform duties, activities, or functions that, if performed by another professional, would require licensure of that professional.

 

CPH

SB 225

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO OCULARISTS.

Specifies that a certified ocularist, certified by a nationally recognized ocularistry certifying board, may perform duties within the scope of that certification.

 

CPH

SB 251

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO SPORTS MEDICINE.

Provides a limited exemption from state licensure requirements to out-of-state physicians who accompany a sports team to a specific sporting event in Hawaii or are invited to provide services at a national sport training center, event, or competition in Hawaii, if certain conditions are met.

 

CPH

SB 770

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO REAL ESTATE LICENSES.

Requires a high school education or its equivalent as a condition for obtaining a license as a real estate broker or real estate salesperson.

 

CPH

SB 777

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS.

Clarifies the list of acceptable institutions or organizations that can meet the continuing education requirements needed by naturopathic physicians for license renewal.

 

CPH

SB 535

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO PHARMACISTS PRESCRIBING AND DISPENSING OF OPIOID ANTAGONIST.

Clarifies the scope of practice of the pharmacist to authorize pharmacists to prescribe and dispense an opioid antagonist to patients, and family members and caregivers of opioid patients.

 

CPH

SB 540

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE BOARD OF PHARMACY.

Allows the board of pharmacy to approve pilot and demonstration projects for innovative applications in the practice of pharmacy under certain circumstances.

 

CPH

SB 203

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO VACCINATIONS.

Clarifies that pharmacists may perform certain vaccinations or immunizations and are required to maintain immunization records.

 

CPH

SB 823

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE REPAIRS.

Requires insurers to provide a choice to the insured consumer of authorizing a repair provider to utilize a like kind and quality crash part or the original equipment manufacturer crash part.  Specifies that an insured consumer who chooses the use of an original equipment manufacturer crash part that would affect the insured consumer's crash avoidance or safety systems shall not be required to pay the additional cost for repairs using that original equipment manufacturer crash part.  Specifies that an insured consumer who chooses the use of an original equipment manufacturer crash part that would not affect the insured consumer's crash avoidance or safety systems shall pay the additional cost of the original equipment manufacturer crash part that is in excess of the equivalent like kind and quality crash part, unless original equipment manufacturer crash parts are required by the vehicle manufacturer's warranty or the use of a like kind and quality crash part would void an existing manufacturer's warranty or the insured consumer's vehicle lease agreement.  Sunsets 7/1/2024.

 

CPH

 

 

 

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

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FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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Senator Rosalyn H. Baker

Chair